"The best weeks of this year"
Youth section member Milla Rantamäki and Heidi Kohtala from the Food Agency participated in the local meeting organized in Myslowice, Poland in June 2022. Liiveri sent ten young people or those working with young people on study trips to different parts of Europe: Italy, Poland, Germany, Greece and Bulgaria. In addition, a local meeting for international participants was organized in Liiver in August-September in Finland. The trips were part of the SaYouth project, which aims to develop young people's opportunities to influence and participate in civil society [...]
Get inspired by Liiver's development work
Through the following slide show, we present a taste of what has been done in Leader Liiver's area between 2014 and 2022. At the same time, the images direct thoughts to the future and hopefully inspire new development work from 2023 onwards. International cooperation is long-term work! In 2015, Liiveri was able to participate in the Jalasjärvi municipality's project, which started the cooperation with Swedish Leader Östra Skaraborg. Today, cooperation continues with entrepreneurship, youth work and [...]
People from Koskenkorva looking for ideas
The famous liquor factory is located in the village of Koskenkorva. How could the Koskenkorva brand be used better in the region's tourism and how would it be possible to create vitality and new attraction for the region? The people of Kostenkorva are looking for answers to these questions by taking a study trip to Åhus. Åhus is a village in the municipality of Kristianstad in southern Sweden, and traditional Absolut Vodka has been produced there since 1879. The goal was to see how a town of the same size as Ilmajoki has succeeded […]
"I hope that the development work will continue in the future as well"
Irma Kortesuo, who worked as a village expert for more than ten years, retired at the end of October. Irma had time to work in Liiver as the leader of four different village projects. - Promoting cooperation between and within villages has been important to me. The villages are different from each other and have different strengths. At its best, cooperation means joining forces, learning from others and also learning to appreciate others, Irma [...]
With additional space, growth in the customer base
In Jalasjärvi's Pentinmäki, J. Rajamäki, a one-person company specializing in bodywork for cars, construction machines and motorcycles, is located. - Business activities include various sheet metal work, orthodontics, rust repairs, foundation work and painting. Making pictures and graphics is also possible, says entrepreneur Janne Rajamäki. Rajamäki, who studied surface treatment and car painting, started working as a part-time entrepreneur in 2013 and became a full-time entrepreneur a couple [...]
Young people as developers in climate matters
The young man visited several different destinations during the summer, e.g. on dairy farms. Photo: Sanna-Kaisa Nokso In the summer of 2022, the theme project "Climate wise - young people as developers" was implemented in the Liiver region, during which four associations hired young people for various development tasks. The background of the project was the changes caused by climate change and the need for measures to curb climate change. The young people have ideas that the project made it possible to put into practice. With the help of the project [...]
Mukula encourages working together
The Mukula event was organized in Jalasjärvi after a long break last August. Community spirit and working together have long traditions in Mukula's history, and the new organizers wanted to continue along the same proven line by involving local parties in the organization. The event will be organized this year as well. In the past, the Mukula event has been a nationally significant pioneer of children's culture, and at its best, the event has had up to 10,000 visitors. Event […]
Jenna Varjanto has started Liiver as a summer employee
The approaching summer can be recognized not only by the greening of the landscape, but also by the fact that Liiveri's office has a new summer employee. I'm Jenna Varjanto, this year's Liiver summer employee. I am studying business administration at Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences for the second year. I specialize in marketing, but I also read digital business economics and management. In addition, I completed the event production specialist degree last year. In my free time, I work as a team gymnastics coach. Over the years, the work of a coach has brought a lot of knowledge. Specially […]
The young influencer was awarded the Ideas for implementation diploma
Eero-Pekka Hautamäki, 21, has worked actively as a developer in his home region. Hautamäki became interested in social influence at an early age. - When I was under school age, I watched the Itsevaltiaat series and asked at home what the parliament and the president meant, Hautamäki laughs. In junior high school, Hautamäki got involved in the activities of the student union board. Since then, the desire to develop and act for the benefit of the community has only grown. Hautamäki has worked in Ilmajoki's youth council since [...]
Fano helps with social media marketing
In 2019, when Mira Nyrhinen applied to Liiver for start-up support for a company focused on social networking services, she could not have imagined how quickly the company would grow in the following years. In a few years, Fano has grown into a company offering versatile communication and marketing services, with a goal of a million turnover during the fifth year of operation. Acting as an entrepreneur has been Mira Nyrhinen's dream since childhood. When the idea of someassari services […]